As a precautionary measure, the Department of Buildings and FDNY had checked if anyone was under the debris. Around 6 p.m. Friday, officials announced that no one had been found and that no one was living at the location.

Hours later, rubble was an eerie reminder of the close call had by all.

“And I just heard ‘crack,’” witness Shane Weekes.

Weekes was giving his son a haircut right across the street when the structure suffered a pancake collapse, floor by floor.